VMS CPU Bound in performance testing

In initial performance testing of a new Order Management System on an DEC Alpha 2100(dual 190 mhz) with OpenVMS version 6.1 with 1G of RAM and Oracle 7.1 we ran into the major constraint of CPU utilization going to 200%. This seems strange that a database would be CPU constrained not IO bound. Any ideas would be appreciated. Is it SMP memory allocation? other??.

Thanks in advance,

JeffJ_at_marvin.com Received on Wed Mar 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CET